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Holyrood @holyroodmag.bsky.social · 1d

Nicola Sturgeon has announced that she’s working on a novel, a 'counterfactual political thriller', but the happy ending she promised Scotland's young people is yet to be written, says @chrismarshll.bsky.social www.holyrood.com/comment/view...

Nicola Sturgeon has broken her promise to Scotland’s young people

Sturgeon and the SNP’s soaring rhetoric has not been met with the same action on the ground

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Chris Marshall @chrismarshll.bsky.social · 2d

Is it a page-turner? Well, there are some plot-like activities...

The Economist @economist.com · 2d

Fans of Thomas Pynchon will find things to like in his latest novel. Other readers, however, may not. While “Shadow Ticket” has some plot-like activities, it is fundamentally plotless

Thomas Pynchon returns with a tale of Nazis, spies—and cheese

“Shadow Ticket” is as perplexing as it sounds

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Chris Marshall @chrismarshll.bsky.social · 2d

Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP made a promise to Scotland's young people, so far it's one they've failed to keep www.holyrood.com/comment/view...

Nicola Sturgeon has broken her promise to Scotland’s young people

Sturgeon and the SNP’s soaring rhetoric has not been met with the same action on the ground

www.holyrood.com

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 2d

It's quite wrong to suggest Robert Jenrick is a racist. Racists believe in something. My SKETCH.

Rob whistle | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine

The day had begun with Robert Jenrick accused of racism. This is of course quite unfair. Racists believe in something. Some of us remember Jenrick as a chubby-cheeked fan of David Cameron fighting the…

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Chris Marshall @chrismarshll.bsky.social · 3d

"Novels ask us (in an age when the dominant cultural impulse is to demand the admiration of others) to imagine what it might be like to be somebody else." www.spectator.co.uk/article/were...

We're all doomed if English literature students can't read books

It’s a whole new cause of gloom to discover that even students who have actively signed up to study English Literature are struggling to read

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Chris Marshall @chrismarshll.bsky.social · 4d

New French prime minister resigns less than 12 hours after naming members of his cabinet www.politico.eu/article/fren...

French PM and government resign

The new administration had been appointed less than twelve hours before resigning.

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Holyrood @holyroodmag.bsky.social · 7d

Until this country faces down the far-right, I won’t take any pride in our flags, says @louisewilso.bsky.social www.holyrood.com/comment/view...

Until this country faces down the far-right, I won’t take any pride in our flags

Flags have long been co-opted for nefarious purposes – the prime minister has finally recognised that

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 9d

Can someone ask Farage or Zia Yusuf why, if they're so concerned about incitement to violence, they had Lucy Connolly as a guest star at their conference?

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Chris Marshall @chrismarshll.bsky.social · 9d

Except in Scotland www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Every GP practice must now offer online booking

Move comes despite opposition from union, with ministers saying NHS needs to embrace digital tech.

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 15d

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was found guilty of taking part in a criminal association but was cleared of corruption charges after being accused of accepting illicit campaign donations from Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi when he ran for president in 2007.

Sarkozy found guilty in Gadhafi case

The former French president was accused of accepting illicit campaign donations from the Libyan dictator.

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Chris Marshall @chrismarshll.bsky.social · 15d

'The prostate cancer support groups are filled with men who tried to get a test and couldn’t' www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...

'The prostate cancer support groups are filled with men who tried to get a test and couldn’t'

Despite an ambition to catch cancers sooner, many prostate cancer patients are still being given devastating late diagno...

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Chris Marshall @chrismarshll.bsky.social · 15d

When it comes to prostate cancer treatment in Scotland, where you live really matters.

The target is for 95% of patients to begin treatment with 62 days of referral - only one health board comes close to meeting that.

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Chris Marshall @chrismarshll.bsky.social · 15d

Same shit, different decade

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Holyrood @holyroodmag.bsky.social · 16d

"Scottish men shouldn’t be having worse outcomes than men in other parts of the UK – it’s not right," says Sir Chris Hoy

Despite an ambition to catch cancers sooner, many prostate cancer patients are still being given devastating late diagnoses www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...

'The prostate cancer support groups are filled with men who tried to get a test and couldn’t'

Despite an ambition to catch cancers sooner, many prostate cancer patients are still being given devastating late diagno...

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 17d

There should be a high bar for politicians attacking the media, but maybe Ed Davey has half a point here?

For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17d

Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”.

So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong

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Chris Marshall @chrismarshll.bsky.social · 19d

I left Twitter and don't regret it. This analysis is based on a flawed understanding of what it became under Musk: right-wing voices were amplified and if you were there for right-wing voices, you were very unlikely to see anything else.

Shadi Hamid @shadihamid.bsky.social · 21d

One of the biggest mistakes left-of-center pundits and influencers made was decamping to Bluesky. They made themselves irrelevant, shrunk their audiences, and dramatically lessened the positive impact they could have on our public debate at the precise time we needed it most.

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Chris Marshall @chrismarshll.bsky.social · 19d

"Things like Gaza are showing people what we’ve been supporting all these years… it’s the centrists who are the villains." www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...

Irvine Welsh: It's the centrists who are the villains

The Trainspotting novelist on the gender wars, Scottish independence and why his most famous novel wouldn't get publishe...

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Chris Marshall @chrismarshll.bsky.social · 21d

"Things like Gaza are showing people what we’ve been supporting all these years… it’s the centrists who are the villains."

I interviewed @irvinewelsh.bsky.social for the latest @holyroodmag.bsky.social www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...

Irvine Welsh: It's the centrists who are the villains

The Trainspotting novelist on the gender wars, Scottish independence and why his most famous novel wouldn't get publishe...

www.holyrood.com

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Chris Marshall @chrismarshll.bsky.social · 20d

The Gently Mad, Inverleith

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Chris Marshall @chrismarshll.bsky.social · 20d

Social media is a mixed blessing but you can't deny the effect Instagram has had on Edinburgh's book shops

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Chris Marshall @chrismarshll.bsky.social · 21d

Thank you

Chris Marshall @chrismarshll.bsky.social · 21d

Ah, will get that changed!

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Chris Marshall @chrismarshll.bsky.social · 21d

"Things like Gaza are showing people what we’ve been supporting all these years… it’s the centrists who are the villains."

I interviewed @irvinewelsh.bsky.social for the latest @holyroodmag.bsky.social www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...

Irvine Welsh: It's the centrists who are the villains

The Trainspotting novelist on the gender wars, Scottish independence and why his most famous novel wouldn't get publishe...

www.holyrood.com

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Chris Marshall @chrismarshll.bsky.social · 23d

The self-appointed defenders of free speech are only interested in elevating right-wing voices www.holyrood.com/comment/view...

The self-appointed defenders of free speech are only interested in elevating right-wing voices

The fragility of those on the left has allowed those on the right to claim they are the true defenders of free speech. M...

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